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The sand flies I encountered in the Pilbara were smaller than the full stop at the end of this sentence. This is a horse fly.

I disagree. If a rangefinder helps speed up play, instead of all this BS pacing out of distances, I am all for them irrespective of whether it's a tournament or not. Range finders determine distance, they don't give any assistance when it comes to wind and rain. They also can't discriminate between the fast baked fairways of a links course, or the over-watered pudding fairways one finds in some parts of the world. Those variables still require individual judgment. At the end of the day, the ball still has to be hit into position, high, low, draw, fade, with or without backspin. If we are going to ban rangefinders, IMO we should be banning yardage books and the pacing out of distances, and just have markers at 200, 150 and 100 yards or metres. Said markers are all I have ever needed. I don't disagree both caddie and player should have known the rules, and certainly should have desisted when they received the first penalty.

I was seasoned many years ago, working in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. A bout of sandfly fever, then basically immune from then on. You may be one of those people who has developed an excessive immune response to the bite. It gets worse with every bite, so your best strategy is to avoid sandfly areas entirely. I don't know about sandflies being attracted to certain people. I do know if there is a mosquito in our bedroom, it will home in on my GF every time, and ignore me.

I usually keep my laptop on full time, unless I am going away for a week or so. It uses very little power in sleep mode anyway. IMO switching a laptop on and off is placing more stress on the switch itself, and any moving-type hard drive.

There are some things you can do to minimize or eliminate acid reflux. Without medication. As another poster has said, get the weight to within normal BMI range. My strategies have been as follows: 1/ I do not go to bed until at least three hours after eating. 2/ I have a regular low-carb diet and exercise routine I mostly stick to. I treat myself occasionally with ice-cream, or bangers and mash. 3/ I avoid over-eating. My alcohol intake is limited to one or two Sangsoms a week. 4/ I drink plenty of water. 6/ Ensure your head is elevated above your feet in bed. 7/ Keep a glass or bottle of water by the bed. Drink a mouthful of water if any reflux occurs. 8/ About half an hour before going to bed, I drink half a teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in a glass of water. I was on Somac ( pantoprazole ) for many years. I have not needed the medication for about four years. Like you, I am 80 yo.

I haven't stayed in Loei city. IIRC there is a dinosaur park off the main #21 road between Loei and Petchabun,

Thousands of free books on Amazon, just input "Kindle free books" into the search function. Some are absolute garbage, I can usually pick those in a few pages. Some authors will make their first book or two free, presumably to entice readers to purchase more of their books to follow the characters and storylines. That strategy has worked with me a few times. What's odd is how Amazon will have a free classic, and the same classic with a price tag on it.

I understand it's called vanity publishing, my biog is more of a legacy to my son.

I went on a low-carb diet quite some time ago, and dropped my body mass from 93 kg to 78 kg. Combined with a regime of regular exercise, 78 kg is where my weight has stayed. I agree sausages and mash is not healthy if eaten regularly. I eat it about once a week, because at that frequency it is doing me no harm, and I enjoy the taste. Steak is healthy, it is protein. Processed carbohydrate and sugar are what is unhealthy. I am 80 yo. My BMI is in normal range. My blood pressure is 120/65, with a resting pulse rate of 60 bpm. What's your statistics?

I don't know how it works where you come from, but I have never heard of anyone in Australia having had a consultation with an anesthesiologist. The surgeon, yes. The first I have ever seen of an anaesthetist is when they are preparing me for surgery.

The anaesthetist should be visiting you before the operation, that is the time to alert them to your concerns. They can then adjust medications and administer an anti-emetic. Or you could take Pramin a couple of hours before the operation. What I do find objectionable is being on a surgical list, when I am required to fast and have no fluids for 9-10 hours, before I actually get wheeled into theatre. IMO it is stupid and dangerous to have patients who are dehydrated before operating. I usually sneak a few sips of water on the pretext of a toilet break, that practice has never harmed me. Having had one anaesthetist who gave me a cup of tea about 2 hours prior to a cystoscopy, I am inclined to doubt whether the constraint on fluids is necessary. I love anaesthesia, wake up with a warm glow, and hungry enough to think hospital food is delicious.

I don't have a daughter. If I did, her reaction to my GF ( 23 years younger ) would be irrelevant to me. It's my life, not hers.

I don't know if it has anything as crude as Surf 'n Turf. Le Coq D'Or is the most expensive restaurant in Chiang Mai, expect dinner for two to set you back 7k to 10K baht. Fine food, impeccable service, great ambience. I like D'Antonio's, which does a very good osso buco. About 1K with house wine. Butter is Better on Changkhlan Road has good bangers and mash, American themed restaurant, not expensive.

Your hypothesis is there is a God - an entity one cannot touch, feel, see, or hear. A belief at war with itself, millions have died in the wars between Islam, Christianity and Judaism. I don't count Buddhism, which to me is more a philosophy of life. What kind of God lets that kind of nonsense go on? Explain to me how thousands of vulnerable children have been abused with no divine intervention. Religion is about money. The reason for the high levels of sexual abuse within religious orders is enforced celibacy, which was instituted to minimize inheritance claims back in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. Any psychologist will tell you when the normal sexual urges of humans are denied, it is statistically inevitable a percentage of those humans will develop some form of perversion. Humans are uncomfortable with the thought this is the only life we have, and it has no discernible meaning. It's an easy path to start believing in something for comfort. To extrapolate that to a system where it is OK to kill unbelievers is an obscenity, and an indicator of the mental illness all religion germinates. Read the Koran. Or read the Christian Apocrypha, merciless and bloody. Expunged from the Old Testament as too confronting. I am an agnostic. IMO most scientists are either agnostics or atheists, because they work with facts, data and evidence. The only evidence for religion is what has been handed down, and is now treated as holy with no means of verification.

Principals are people who are the head of a school, principles are what some people have. Some stand-over operators buy a debt at a discount, then chase the debtor for the full amount plus interest and expenses. I don't know if the Thai mafia has a similar system. Judging by what IvorBiggun2 has posted, I'd say collecting the debt without resorting to criminality is impossible.

This thread reminds of the Navy prank, when old salts send a newchum to the store to get striped paint.

You think more censorship is needed?

When I die. I add to it occasionally when I feel an event is of interest to myself and others. It's a legacy to my son, who probably won't publish it because he got his mother's prude gene.

Golf. Making videos on various topics and posting them on YouTube. I'll never get rich with them; however, it is creative. Writing my autobiography, now at 153,000 words. IMO I've had an interesting life. Playing pa som sip ( Thai national card game ) with my GF, It's cut-throat, 10 coins each, who wins them all wins a 20 baht note. A lot of swearing in Thai and English. Trying out new restaurants, learning Thai, reading books, and listening to mostly classical music. Posting on ASEAN. With my background in science, sometimes what I post is useful.

In one, it was because I suggested to the poster the girlfriend he had acquired in Pattaya had enjoyed sex with multiple men previously. A reasonable conclusion, given the performance attributes he was describing. Not the stuff virgins are made of. The other one was completely out of the blue, a deranged post with no reason given except perhaps my nationality, and his description of me as mouthy.

Cheaper than Just So, food not to the same standard. You get what you pay for. Having said that, I find their chicken steak with salad and chips a substantial meal. Pork steak is a bit fatty.

Have you seen a shrink to find out if you are bipolar?

I don't think I am smart enough to deal with the two death threats I have had on this forum, perhaps you do. You have a crystal ball to identify anonymous posters, eh? I'm smart enough to deal with confused people, but I'd probably get banned for my response. You don't seem to be doing too badly in the trophy hunt, ratings double your posts.

The thumbs-down emoji was removed because it was used by stalkers. I am not sure I like the feature of being able to identify emoji posters being removed, although I suppose it saves me trouble of asking sad and confused posters why. It also saves them from formulating an incoherent response.

I am occasionally wrong, I try to minimize by consulting multiple sources on matters of fact. The amount of sheer BS on social media does not help.